QLD Health Regulation 270A has been Amended and a new entry 270B made

[MongyMan]

This is great news. Please support and thank the people behind this change on their FB page - Medical Cannabis Advisory Group QLD -  for the countless hours of hard work they have put into fighting for this change and the work they continue to do fighting for further changes to cannabis regulation and law to give ALL Australian's access to ALL forms of legal medical cannabis from TGA style pharmaceutical cannabis products to whole plant raw cannabis and home grown medical cannabis.

 

Great work guys and again thank you. You have my full support

 

https://www.facebook.com/medcanadvisorygroupqld/posts/1224636170886989

 

 

Queensland Lawful Access to Cannabis - Health Regulation 270A has been Amended and a new entry 270B made

Thank you everyone who has supported our petitioning and lobbying this year for this amendment to be made by the Premier and Cabinet. We still have a long way to go but this is a significant victory as patients and carers can now lawfully access s 9 cannabis in Queensland and hopefully it won't be too long before a local industry is also established.

Premier Palaszczuk and Cabinet have made an amendment to Regulation 270A of the Health (Drugs and Poisons) Regulation 1996 which previously prohibited all access to s9 cannabis and have also made a new entry 270B which now allows the Health Minister to give approvals to a person to administer, manufacture, obtain, possess and use s9 cannabis in approved clinical trials as well as State approval for lawful access to unapproved s9 cannabis products through the SAS under section 19(1) of the Therapeutic Goods Act.

Although there were no specific provisions made in 270B to allow the Health Minister to grant approvals or licences for the cultivation of cannabis the previous prohibition in 270A from must not grant approvals for cultivation has been removed which may mean that discretion can now be used but until there are clear and specific provisions made as we have asked the fight continues for access and protection for patients and carers growing their own cannabis for medical purposes or obtaining it from the illicit market.

Approved Clinical Trials

At this stage the new provision for access to s9 cannabis under approved clinical trials does not appear to be restricted to trials conducted in accordance with provisions of the Commonwealth Therapeutic Goods Act as is the case with the NSW Liberal Government trials as NSW has adopted the TGA into State law which may mean that Queensland can conduct it's own research trials using cannabis cultivated in Queensland without the age, condition and pharmaceutical cannabis product restrictions imposed under the NSW trials.

Special Access Scheme State Approvals

There are also new provisions for State approvals to be given for access connected with section 19(1) of the TGA which means that patients can now lawfully access imported cannabis products through the Special Access Scheme (SAS) in the interim until a local supply is lawfully available.

This means that patients like Lindsay who has been waiting since March for State approval for lawful access to his treatment that has been recommended by his US doctors for his brain tumour, epilepsy, nausea and chronic pain can now lawfully obtain a consistent supply of medical grade cannabis that has been cultivated and tested to health and quality control standards under the care of his Queensland doctor and we hope it won't be much longer before a local supply is available here in QLD.

The SAS allows registered doctors to treat patients with unapproved products where there is clinical justification for use; and where the products have not been evaluated by the TGA and are not listed on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG) and the patient or carer has given their full informed consent and have accepted full responsibility for any adverse outcomes from the treatment.

No State Approval needed for CBD

The amendment has been a significant victory for patients who need s9 cannabis as previously patients could only access CBD through the SAS without needing State approval after changes were made earlier this year to include CBD in the Commonwealth SUSMP as a S4 prescription medicine.

No changes to the Drugs Misuse Act QLD

We have received correpondence that at this stage the Government does not intend to make any changes to the DMA. Although research licences can be granted under the Industrial Cannabis part of the Drugs Misuse Act for the cultivation of cannabis with more than 3% THC content there are still some restrictions as the Act does not allow for products to be made in a form that can be used for human consumption.

The Commonwealth SUSMP also lists industrial cannabis/hemp separately from s9 cannabis and also has the same not for human use restrictions.

CBD from the hemp plant is also a separate issue to cannabis from the medical cannabis plant and is sold as a food supplement overseas so we hope to see the changes that need to be made to the DMA and SUSMP to make it available as a food supplement here in Australia soon.

However there is access to CBD under schedule 4 on prescription with a THC and other cannabinoid content of 2% or less but no local supply available so patients still need to go through the SAS.

We hope to have some more clarification on the changes shortly but are very pleased that we no longer have to go to the Supreme Court and families do not need to relocate overseas for treatment.

A huge thank you to Premier Anna Palaszczuk and her Cabinet members for making these changes and thank you again to everyone who has given their ongoing support throughout this year to make this happen.

QUEENSLAND is now off to a great start for 2017 and can lead the way with cannabis for medical purposes law reform.

Below is the link to the Health Regulations and extracts of the amended and new entries in the Health (Drugs and Poisons Regulation) 1996

270A Approval must not be granted for therapeutic use of S9 poisons

Subject to section 270B, the chief executive must not grant an approval to a person to manufacture, obtain, possess or use an S9 poison for human therapeutic use.

270B Approval for cannabis

The chief executive may grant an approval to a person to administer, dispense, manufacture, obtain, possess, prescribe, supply or use an S9 poison if—

(a) the S9 poison is cannabis; and the approval is for or connected with—
(i) an approved clinical trial; or
( b ) an approval, for the supply of cannabis for use in the treatment of a person, given under the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 (Cwlth), section 19(1).

https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/…/cur…/H/HealDrAPOR96.pdf

 

 

 

MongyMan

[vape dude]

great news

Edited December 21, 2015 by vape dude

[Naycha]

Cheers for the info.

 

Congrats QLD and a kick up the bum to the other states and territories.

[Johnydark]

An inch taken but miles to go. Cant rush these things, i mean no one is dying or suffering because the pollies are taking their time ? Oh wait people are suffering from both physical diseases and the mental disease of prohabition.

I was chatting to an acquaintance whose husband does dialysis and ALL of them use cannabis to deal with the pain from dialysis. I was chatting to another friend that was stuck in bed for 4 years with fibro myalgia and can now live a semblance of normal life using cannabis. Another friend was an artist that had to give up because of arthritis in her hands but now can paint again thanks to cannabis.

But dont hurry politicians because no one is suffering are they, while you naval gaze and figure out how to hand it all to big pharma ?

I salute the efforts of good people to progress things but lets face it the idiot politicians banned cannabis first with no proof and now they drag their tax payer funded heals while more people suffer from illness and prohabition.

[Johnydark]

Hi,

 

Can you please advise what does this mean in layman terms if you dont mind me asking?

 

Thanks,

 

Vape Dude

Basically you are screwed unless you can go with cap in hand on bended knee and beg the minister (the executive) to either allow you to participate in a clinical trial or you can get presumably a manufacturer to supply you with cannabis which there arent any approved suppliers yet.

Good old bureaucratic politicians keeping control of everything even though they know nothing and are not accountable.